ncaa-manual

Figure 20-1General Requirements for Division I MembershipSports Sponsorship: Number of SportsAll-Male orMixed-TeamSportsAll-FemaleSportsMinimum Numberof Team SportsFootball SchedulingRequirementFootballAttendanceRequirementMen’s BasketballScheduling RequirementWomen’s BasketballScheduling RequirementScheduling Requirement—Sports Other ThanFootball and Basketball Financial Aid Requirement 2Division I 7 7 2-All male/mixed2-All femaleOR6 8Active orreclassifyingmember:All but four games againstDivision I teams.At least 1/3 of regularseasoncontests must beplayed in home arenaActive orreclassifyingmember:All but four games againstDivision I teams. At least1/3 of regular-seasoncontests must be played inhome arena. At least 1/3of regular-season contestsmust be played away fromhome or at a neutral site.Sports used to meet sportssponsorship criteria: Aninstitution shall scheduleand play 100% of itscontests against Division Iopponents to meet minimumnumber of contests. 150% of remaining contestsagainst Division I opponents.a) 50% of maximum allowablegrants in each sport 3orb) Minimum aggregate expenditureof $1,394,580 (with at least $697,290in women’s sports) in 2013-14(excluding football and men’s andwomen’s basketball). Grant valuemay not be less than 38 full grants(with at least 19 for women) 4orc) Equivalent of 25 full grants in men’ssports and 25 full grants in women’ssports (exclusive of grants in footballand men’s and women’s basketball) 5Football BowlSubdivision(FBS)8 Includingfootball7 Includingfootball6 IncludingfootballOROR8 2-All male/mixed2-All female910At least 60% of all gamesmust be played againstFBS members andat least five home gamesagainst members of FBSAverage 15,000in actual or paidattendance forhome footballgames duringa rolling twoyearperiod.In addition to Division I requirement,a) provide an average of at least90% of permissible maximumnumber of football grants-in-aidduring a rolling two-year periodandb) Annually offer a minimumof 200 athletics grants-in-aid orspend $4 million on athleticsgrants-in-aid annually.FootballChampionshipSubdivision(FCS)7 Includingfootball6 IncludingfootballOR7 No additional requirements.8 2-All male/mixed2-All femaleAt least 50% of all gamesmust be played againstFBS or FCS membersNONE1In men’s swimming and diving, men’s indoor and outdoor track and field, and wrestling, an institution shall schedule and play at least 50% of its contests against Division I opponents to satisfy the minimum number of contests.2For institutions that depend on exceptional amounts of federal assistance to meet students’ financial needs, the institution must provide a minimum of one-half of the required grants or aggregate expenditures cited in (a), (b) or (c)above. This provision shall be applicable to an institution in a given year if the average per-student allotment of Pell Grant dollars for undergraduates reported to the U.S. Department of Education the previous September is more thanone standard deviation above the mean for all reporting Division I member institutions that year. If an institution does not qualify under this provision after having been able to do so the previous year, the institution may continue touse this alternative for one year and shall not be required to meet the provisions of (a), (b) or (c) until the following year. This provision shall be applicable only to institutions that were members of Division I on September 1, 1990.3If an institution uses indoor track and field, outdoor track and field and cross country to meet the financial aid criterion, it must award the equivalent of at least 80% of the full grants for men and 80% of the fullgrants for women in these sports. If the institution counts two of those three sports to meet the financial aid criterion, it must award the equivalent of at least 70% of the full grants for men and 70% of the full grantsfor women. If the institution counts indoor and outdoor track and field as one sport, it must award the equivalent of at least 50% of the full grants for men and 50% of the full grants for women.4If the institution does not sponsor men’s or women’s basketball, the minimum aggregate expenditure must be $920,707 in 2013-14 for men or for women, but not fewer than the equivalent of 29 full grants for men or for women.5If the institution does not sponsor men’s or women’s basketball, it must provide a minimum of 35 full grants in men’s sports and 35 full grants in women’s sports.354